After a couple of days, Martin was still not well enough to venture out, so I spent an afternoon with Pelle and Ulla, a nice young Danish couple staying at
Mama's. We rented a couple of rickety bikes and made our way to the small village of Baisha north of Lijiang. Views of
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain ahead of us were fantastic as we rode along. The cobbled streets of Baisha were lined with stalls - people selling local junk - old Chinese coins, red Tibetan jade (not green like normal jade), batique dyed cotton tablecloths, and Mah Jong sets made out of yak bone. Nice! Another attraction about Baisha is Dr. Ho's clinic - a Chinese Herbal doctor made famous by the media because of his successes in curing people with various diseases such as leukemia and MS. Contributing to his fame have been visits by John Cleese and Michael Palin too (both of Monty Python fame). Anyway, his son, Hu Shulong, danced around a 'lab' of large red plastic tubs full of powdered herbs concocting a remedy for Martin's funny tummy. When I delivered my gift later on Martin was not particularly impresssed with it - it makes a pretty disgusting tea, apparently! * Mush
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